David Bondurant

Nikola Tesla is the Father of Wireless Communications but did not get full credit.  It was Marconi who sent the first signal across the Atlantic and won the Nobel Prize.  However, it was Tesla who invented many of the key components of Wireless Communications years earlier.

In 1899, with funding from John Jacob Astor, Tesla arrived in Colorado Springs to build a laboratory to demonstrate the first Full Scale Very Low Frequency Continuous Wave Transmitter (his Magnifying Transmitter) which sent wireless telegraphy 10 miles and send power as far away as 26-miles to light bulbs wirelessly.

This talk will describes Tesla's life story, the development of wireless communications, and time in Colorado Springs when he proved his wireless transmitter.

Biography:

David Bondurant has been involved with the computer and semiconductor industry for 50-years.  He was a computer architect at Control Data, Sperry-Univac, and Honeywell.  He was involved with the government-sponsored advanced semiconductor program called VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuits) at Univac & Honeywell where he developed microprocessor and ASIC semiconductor products in bipolar CML, CMOS, and radiation hard CMOS.  He was involved with emerging non-volatile RAM marketing at industry leading companies, Ramtron (FRAM), Enhanced Memory Systems (EDRAM, ESDRAM, ESRAM), Simtek (non-volatile SRAM), and Freescale Semiconductor/Everspin Technologies (MRAM).